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English Dictionary: non-trivial by the DICT Development Group
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   nontrivial adj.   Requiring real thought or significant
   computing power.   Often used as an understated way of saying that a
   problem is quite difficult or impractical, or even entirely
   unsolvable ("Proving P=NP is nontrivial").   The preferred emphatic
   form is `decidedly nontrivial'.   See {trivial}, {uninteresting},
   {interesting}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   nontrivial
  
      Requiring real thought or significant computing power.   Often
      used as an understated way of saying that a problem is quite
      difficult or impractical, or even entirely unsolvable
      ("Proving P=NP is nontrivial").   The preferred emphatic form
      is "decidedly nontrivial".
  
      See {uninteresting}, {interesting}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1995-02-21)
  
  
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